Broadstairs · St Peter's · Clifftop bays · CT10
Hedge cutting and reduction, plus tree services: pruning, crown thinning, crown raising, crown reduction, deadwooding. Across Broadstairs, St Peter's and the clifftop bays from Dumpton Gap up to Kingsgate. Fully insured. Salt-wise species choice. Six-week conservation-area notice filed on your behalf. Herring-gull nesting checked before any cliff-edge work.
What I do
Specified for the Margate Chalk under the Thanet coast, the salt-laden northeasterlies off the North Sea, and the three conservation areas that cover much of Broadstairs' Victorian and Edwardian core. Hedge cutting and reduction for the boundary; pruning, crown thinning, raising, reduction and deadwooding for the mature trees behind it.
Annual or twice-yearly cuts on Escallonia, Griselinia, privet, laurel, holm oak, hawthorn and the rest. Formal coastal cadence, clean lines, all arisings cleared.
See pricing & timingBringing overgrown Victorian-villa hedges back into proportion, the four-floor terraces on Gladstone Road, the mature laurel and Leylandii screens that sit right on the 2m High Hedges line.
How I reduce safelyPruning, crown thinning, crown raising, crown reduction and deadwooding on the mature trees behind the hedge. Clifftop wind-load and ash dieback assessed as part of every quote. TPO and conservation-area notice handled for you.
See tree workThe promise
I don't ask for payment until you have walked the hedge with me and you are happy. If I haven't done what I said I would, I put it right or you owe me nothing. No deposits, no upfront, no chasing.
Anyone on a state pension, automatically. No card, no proof of anything, just mention it when you book. Honour system.
Used me before? Your next job over £500 gets 10% off, no time limit, no asking. Logged when the quote goes out, you do not need to remind me.
Why local matters
The Thanet coast is the type area for the Margate Chalk Member of the Upper Cretaceous, thin, sharply alkaline topsoil, marl-free and flint-poor. Manston records 1,846 hours of sunshine a year (1991–2020), which puts Broadstairs among the sunniest places in the UK, with rainfall of just 613mm. Prevailing wind is westerly and south-westerly, but the killer vector for coastal planting is the N/NE salt-laden air off the North Sea, that decides which species live and which die.
I work to that reality, not against it. Escallonia and Olearia on the seafront where Griselinia is too tender in a hard East Kent winter. Yew and hawthorn set back where beech would scorch through July. Native hawthorn on chalk-loving field boundaries out towards Reading Street. And a tape measure on any stem approaching the 75mm conservation-area threshold before I touch it.
Inside a conservation area?
Broadstairs has three designated conservation areas: Broadstairs CA (extended twice, most recently 23 July 2009), St Peter's CA and Reading Street CA (both 13 April 1973). Any tree with a stem over 75mm at chest height needs six weeks' written notice to Thanet District Council before pruning. I file the section-211 notice on your behalf, included in every quote.
Recent work
A running log of jobs around Broadstairs, St Peter's and the clifftop bays. Updated as each one finishes.
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